The problem, as you can see, is that the text (height and width) is nothing like the Height and Width of the compoent (Spark TextArea) that I have set via the Main.mxml file in Flex 4. This is pissing me off so much because nobody can tell me why this is happening, or how to fix it. Text is dynamically added to the TextArea as people send messages in the server, hence the valueCommit line.

I don't understand this, because I know it's not the fault of my fx:Script. I know this, because when I switch over to the Design tab of Adobe Flex Builder 4; the lines are just as messed up as in the screen shot.

I've been tearing my hair out (metaphorically) over this issue, please help me come to an answer:

What's the problem ? Is it getting too big ? or is it not scrolling to the newly added text ?

setting the heightInLines and widthInChars is going to allow it to resize to however big it wants to be. If you want it to stay a certain size , say a percentage or hard width/height , you have to set that. Then handle the scrolling to the bottom somewhere else.

People, the problem is that the text box is taking the size in height and wdith on the froum that I say, and scrolling is working, BUT the actual TEXT AREA inside the text box is only about a tenth of the screen, in the top left of the box. VIEW THE IMAGE I POSTED PLEASE

You know , I frequent this forum alot , and when I see a post in my inbox , I think to myself "How does this noob not understand the difference between a VerticalLayout and a HorizontalLayout". But every once in a while , someone writes a post that makes it all worth it. Thank you Sir Charles.

"File a bug"? How many of those am I limited to in a day? I have a few hundred to report, from various bugs in the halo skin, to various framework CORE issues, such as a gigantic memory leak with images embedded as classes... Really? I don't want to write all that up. I might as well just use another IDE, because the Adobe Flash Builder IDE is nothing but an Eclipse clone...

AND AT THAT NOTE: Eclipse IDE is far more stable, my CURRENT problem with AFB is that it WON'T SHOW ERRORS. The problems pane DOES NOT UPDATE, EVER. Does any other developer see this as a problem?

The problem with the problems pain seems to occur once you have over 600 lines of code in an <fx:Script> tag or in one AS file in an ActionScript file... even when compiling errors no longer give me a line number now, so I have no means of fixing them anymore.

It's getting increadingly annoying. Also, I can't even report bugs. I went to that bugs. whatever website that was linked, and registered; but it never sent me my activation email; so I am unable to login to it now...

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Also, the gigantic leak I speak of is about 28,000kb of extra RAM usage when a 149KB PNG was embedded into the SWF, and the SWF was loaded into a clean start of Firefox 3.7... The flash-container.exe file showed incredible amounts of ram usage when embeding the image (the normal way [Embed(source)] var myImage:Class = new Class(); )

Message was edited by: CharlesBroughton_112. Reason: I added a bit about the image leak.

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